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All Rabbit Breeds
This catalog of rabbit breeds lists all rabbit breeds recognized in the USA, including a brief description and a link to the breed's national organization (if available).
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The American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) is the national rabbit organization that recognizes all these rabbit breeds, and it pictures each breed on its website. Additionally, if you visit the websites of the national breed clubs, you'll likely find lots more pictures of the breed they support, so you'll see what each looks like. Enjoy... ALL RABBIT BREEDS: A  American
- Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds
- Type: Semi-arch (mandolin)
- Color: Blue, White
- Distinctive: Old American meat breed; breed has been identified as critically endangered
- Contact: Breeders of the American Rabbit
American Fuzzy Lop - Senior Weight: 3 1/2 - 3 3/4 pounds
 - Type: Compact and short
- Colors: Agouti, broken, pointed white, self, shaded and wide band
- Distinctive: A lop-eared rabbit resembling the Mini Lop, but smaller, and with wool that is at least 2 inches long.
- National Club: AFLRC - American Fuzzy Lop Rabbit Club
American Sable - Senior Weight: 7 - 10 pounds
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Shaded sepia brown, very dark on face and points, and lighter across body.
- Distinctive: Color
- National Club:
Angora - English - Senior Weight: 5 - 7 ½ pounds
 - Type: Compact
- Color: Many. Regardless of color, wool colors are very pale due to dilution of pigment.
- Distinctive: Its fine soft wool up to 5 inches long. All areas of rabbit covered in wool, except for the immediate face.
- National Club: National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club
Angora - French - Senior Weight: 7 ½ - 10 ½ pounds.
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Many. Regardless of color, wool colors are very pale due to dilution of pigment.
- Distinctive: Wool is about 4 inches long. Head and ears are not wooled.
- National Club: National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club
Angora - Giant - Senior Weight: 9 ½ pounds and over. (No maximum weight given.)
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Ruby-Eyed-White (Albino)
- Distinctive: Giant size, wooled, ears tasseled with wool.
- National Club: National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club
Angora - Satin - Senior Weight: 6 ½ - 9 ½ pounds.
 - Type: Commercial
- Color: Many. Regardless of color, wool colors are very pale due to dilution of pigment.
- Distinctive: Wool is fine, soft and silky, carrying the sheen of a satinized wool shaft. Sheen is evident over the entire body, including head and ears, which are not heavily wooled.
- National Club: National Angora Rabbit Breeders Club
ALL RABBIT BREEDS: B Belgian Hare - Senior Weight: 6 - 9 ½ pounds
- Type: Fully arched
- Color: Brilliant, rich, deep red, of a tan or chestnut shade.
- Distinctive: Arched and racy, hare-like in appearance.
- National Club: Belgian Hare Club
Beveren - Senior Weight: 8 - 12 pounds
- Type: Mandolin
- Color: Black, blue and white
- Distinctive: Its mandolin shape on a large body suitable for meat production.
- National Club: American Beveren Rabbit Club
Blanc de Hotot - Senior Weight: 8 - 11 pounds
 - Type: Commercial
- Color: Entirely frosty white, except for an 1/8 inch black "eyeband" around eyes. Eyes are brown.
- Distinctive: Eye markings.
- National Club: Hotot Rabbit Breeders International
Britannia Petite ALL RABBIT BREEDS: C  Californian
- Senior Weight: 8 - 10 ½ pounds
- Type: Commercial
- Color: White, with black at the points (nose, ears, feet and tail). Eyes are red.
- Distinctive: Himalayan markings in a commercial rabbit
- National Club: Californian Rabbit Specialty Club
Champagne D’Argent - Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Bluish white, with interspersed jet black hairs, giving an old silver effect.
- Distinctive: Its color.
- National Club:
Checkered Giant - Senior Weight: 11 - 12 pounds minimum (no maximum weight)
- Type: Arched
- Color: White with black spots and spine stripe; white with blue spots and spine stripe
- Distinctive: Large size, body type and spots.
- National Club: American Checkered Giant Rabbit Club
Chinchilla - American - Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds.
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Resembling the chinchilla - black and white banded hair shafts
- Distinctive: Color. This breed is recognized as critically endangered.
- Contact: American Chinchillas
Chinchilla - Standard Cinnamon - Senior Weight: 8 ½ - 11 pounds.
- Type: Commercial
 - Color: Rusty or cinnamon, with uniform smoke gray ticking across the back
- Distinctive: Color
- National Club: Cinnamon Rabbit Breeders Association
Crème D’Argent - Senior Weight: 8 - 11 pounds
 - Type: Commercial
- Color: Creamy white with a bright orange cast due to orange undercolor
- Distinctive: Color
- National Club: Creme d'Argent Federation
ALL RABBIT BREEDS: D Dutch - Senior Weight: 3 ½ - 5 ½ pounds
- Type: Compact
- Color: Black, blue, chocolate, gray, steel, or tortoise, with distinctive white markings
- Distinctive: Marking patterns
- National Club: American Dutch Rabbit Club
Dwarf Hotot - Senior Weight: Maximum weight = 3 pounds.
 - Type: Compact
- Color: Pure white, except for a uniform band of black around the eyes of the thickness of two pennies on edge. Eyes are brown.
- Distinctive: Eyebands.
- National Club: American Dwarf Hotot Rabbit Club
ALL RABBIT BREEDS: E - F English Spot - Senior Weight: 5 - 8 pounds
- Type: Arched
- Color: White, with nose butterfly, eye circles, ears, cheek spots, spine and side spots in these colors: black, blue chocolate, gold, gray, lilac, tortoise.
- Distinctive: Carriage and markings
- National Club: American English Spot Rabbit Club (www.aesrc.com)
Flemish Giant
Florida White Return To Top ALL RABBIT BREEDS: G - I Harlequin - Senior Weight: 6 1/2 - 9 1/2 pounds.
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Black, blue, chocolate and lilac in two groups: Japanese (dark/orange), Magpie (dark/white). One ear black, the other orange. Sides of face, chest and legs alternate colors, and back should have 5 or 6 alternating bands or bars.
- Distinctive: Alternating markings
- National Club: American Harlequin Rabbit Club
Havana - Senior Weight: 4 ½ - 6 ½ pounds.
- Type: Compact
- Color: Black, blue, chocolate, brokens
- Distinctive: Medium-small, vibrantly colored.
- National Club: Havana Rabbit Breeders Association
Himalayan - Senior Weight: 2 ½ - 4 ½ pounds
 - Type: Cylindrical
- Color: Pointed: Pure white except for points, which are black, blue, chocolate or lilac: nose, ears, feet and tail
- Distinctive: Cylindrical shape
- National Club: American Himalayan Rabbit Association
Holland Lop - Senior Weight: Not over 4 pounds.
 - Type: Compact, with head high
- Color: Agouti, broken, pointed white, self, shaded, tan, ticked, wide band
- Distinctive: Small size and lopped ears.
- National Club: Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club
ALL RABBIT BREEDS: J - L Jersey Wooly - Senior Weight: Not over 3 ½ pounds.
- Type: Compact
- Color: Agouti, broken, AOV, self, shaded, tan
- Distinctive: Petite and 3 inch wool
- National Club: National Jersey Wooly Rabbit Club
Lilac Lop - English - Senior Weight: 9 pounds and over (no maximum weight)
- Type: Semi-arched
- Color: Agouti, broken, self, shaded, ticked, wide band
- Distinctive: Enormous, lopped ears
- National Club: Lop Rabbit Club of America
Lop - French - Senior Weight: 10 ½ pounds and over (no maximum weight)
- Type: Massive
 - Color: Agouti, broken, self, shaded, ticked, wide band
- Distinctive: Massive size, lopped ears
- National Club: Lop Rabbit Club of America
ALL RABBIT BREEDS: M Mini Lop - Senior Weight: 4 ½ - 6 ½ pounds
- Type: Massive, compact
- Color: Agouti, broken, pointed white, self, shaded, ticked, wide band
- Distinctive: Lopped ears, compact yet massive in effect
- National Club: Mini Lop Rabbit Club of America
Mini Rex - Senior Weight: 3 - 4 ½ pounds
- Type: Commercial in effect, yet in a little body
- Color: Black, blue, blue-eyed white, broken, castor, chinchilla, chocolate, Himalayan, lilac, lynx, opal red, seal, tortoise, red-eyed white
- Distinctive: rex fur on petite body
- National Club: National Mini Rex Rabbit Club
Mini Satin - Senior Weight: 3 1/4 - 4 3/4 pounds
 - Type: Commercial in petite package
- Color: Ruby-eyed white (chinchilla, opal, red and siamese starting Feb 2010)
- Distinctive: Satin fur
- National Club: American Satin Rabbit Breeders Association
ALL RABBIT BREEDS: N Netherland Dwarf - Senior Weight: Not over 2 ½ pounds
- Type: Compact
- Color: Agouti, self, shaded, tan pattern, any other varieties
- Distinctive: Tiny round size, short ears
- National Club: American Netherland Dwarf Rabbit Club
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ALL RABBIT BREEDS: O - PPalomino - Senior Weight: 8 - 11 pounds.
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Golden, lynx
- Distinctive: Color
- National Club:
Polish - Senior Weight: Not over 3 ½ pounds
- Type: Compact
- Color: Black, blue, broken, chocolate, blue-eyed white, ruby-eyed white
- Distinctive: Petite size
- National Club: American Polish Rabbit Club
ALL RABBIT BREEDS: R - S Rex - Senior Weight: 7 ½ - 10 ½ pounds
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Amber, black, blue, broken, Californian, castor, chinchilla, chocolate, lilac, lynx, opal, otter, red, sable, seal, white
- Distinctive: Rex fur
- National Club: National Rex Rabbit Club
Rhinelander - Senior Weight: 6 ½ - 10 pounds
- Type: Arched
- Color: White with evenly distributed black and orange markings on nose, eye circles, cheek spot, ears, spine, side spot and tail.
- Distinctive: Tri coloration, markings
- National Club: Rhinelander Rabbit Club of America
Satin - Senior Weight: 8 ½ - 11 pounds
- Type: Commercial
 - Color: Black, blue broken, Californian, chinchilla, chocolate, copper, otter, red, Siamese, white
- Distinctive: Satinized hair shafts - finer diameter and a more transparent hair shell resulting in brilliant colors and enhanced sheen.
- National Club: American Satin Rabbit Breeders Association
Silver - Senior Weight: 4 - 7 pounds
- Type: Slight mandolin
- Color: Black, brown, fawn
- Distinctive: Even silvering over entire rabbit due to silver-white hairs and hair-tips; considered a ‘rare’ breed
- National Club: National Silver Rabbit Club
Silver Fox - Senior Weight: 9 - 12 pounds
- Type: Commercial
- Color: Black which is ‘silvered’ (other varieties in development)
- Distinctive: Long, evenly silvered fur, and is a meat breed. Silver Fox breed is recognized as critically endangered.
- National Club (presence on Facebook only): National Silver Fox Rabbit Club
Silver Martin - Senior Weight: 6 - 9 ½ pounds
- Type: Lighter commercial
- Color: Black, blue, chocolate, sable, in a tan pattern (‘tan’ areas are white in this breed)
- Distinctive: Black and silver coloration, long silvery guard hairs evenly distributed up sides of rabbit
- National Club: Silver Martin Rabbit Club
ALL RABBIT BREEDS: T - Z  Tan
- Senior Weight: 4 - 6 pounds
- Type: Arched
- Color: Black, blue, chocolate and lilac, with fiery tan triangle, chest and belly
- Distinctive: Rich fiery tan and lustrous top colors
- National Club: American Tan Rabbit Specialty Club
Thrianta ("Tree-ahnta") - Senior Weight: 4-6 pounds
- Type: Compact
- Color: A fiery, brilliant red with dark brown eyes. The belly is a slightly lighter shade of red.
- Distinctive: Its amazing, fiery red color.
- National Club: American Thrianta Rabbit Breeders Association
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